How To Lose Friends And Influence People
I’ve been pretty relentlessly downbeat about Chris Christie’s chances of winning the GOP nomination lately, so it’s only fair to note this bit of positive news, from Nicholas Hune-Brown at Hazlitt:...
View ArticleConventional Wisdom Tomorrow, Politically Incorrect Today
So all kinds of hobbyhorses around here that were contentious at the time have come to be widely accepted. The GOP is entirely decoupled from rational strategic or policy thought; the only economic...
View ArticleSerious Discussion Of The Presidential Race, Circa 2011
This nicely encapsulates the GOP’s unseriousness, and the media’s catering to right-wing identity politics in lieu of accurately reporting the news: Franklin Graham on the 2012 Presidential Race The...
View ArticleSilver Star
I think a lot of liberals, in the wake of the Bush catastrophes, fell back to relying on data. But we still have to interpret the data reasonably. Dean Baker critiques Nate Silver: In his new and...
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There Is No Such Thing As A Moderate Republican
We pointed this out looking at governors awhile ago; now, note the same tendency in the House: From Primary Colors. the most conservative district a Democrat currently holds is an R+16 – Jim Matheson...
View ArticleA Dumb Strategy For The Stupid Party
Well, I did not see this coming: SCOOP: Bobby Jindal to unveil plan today to replace health-care law http://t.co/WZsFxw4Drv — Robert Costa (@costareports) April 2, 2014 As Jeb mulls and Rand builds...
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The Middle Class Disappears
A graphic from Daniel Kay Hertz, via CBS Chicago. Family income 75-125% of the metropolitan median are in gray.
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The Centrist’s Eternal Search For Bipartisan, Technical Blame
Neat graphic, but it misdiagnoses, and doesn’t capture the asymmetry of, the polarization: More context shows the asymmetry of the polarization: The funny thing is, the WaPo blog post linked above...
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Corruption Is Worse Than Quid Pro Quo
In McCutcheon two weeks ago, Justice Roberts again limited his discussion of the ill effects of campaign contributions to “quid pro quo”. In reality, we have far more to worry about than that: That’s...
View ArticleSterling Silver Lining
This, from the NY Post, is pretty mean: This could wind up being a pretty short ban. Disgraced racist Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is battling cancer — surprising those around him by...
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